by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_)
Wombo are one of the more exciting new bands we’ve come across this year. While they released Blossomlooksdownuponus, their fantastic full length debut, last year, we hadn’t caught wind of the record until Fire Talk (PACKS, Mia Joy, Dark Tea) announced the reissue back in March. With a renewed lease on their LP, the band announced it’s follow-up EP, Keesh Mountain, due out May 28th, and shared the first single “Dreamsickle,” which continues the band’s energetic approach at off-kilter art-rock, taking a a psychedelic approach to dreamy pop, post-punk, and dynamic math rock. It all blends together into something that feels free form at times, taking elements of genres and contorting them to something new. while creating something that is still oddly “pop” at its core.
“Situations” is the Louisville trio’s latest single, and the grande finale of Keesh Mountain, a short and sweet ripper that’s chock of all there is the love about Wombo. With a riff that is jubilant yet jagged as hell, the band capture their post-punk but stray from rigidness, with a full on fuzzy crunch. It’s elastic tight and delightfully detached, snapping in and out of shape. The band groove and lay into their distortion, bouncing between the two in a wild dash toward a twangy and rattled crescendo. Without wasting a single moment, Wombo swerve between disparate sounds to make them sound impeccably gluey and unified.